From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752109AbXCPIin (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:38:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752100AbXCPIin (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:38:43 -0400 Received: from mtagate8.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.141]:1303 "EHLO mtagate8.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753096AbXCPIim (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:38:42 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:36:50 +0100 From: Heiko Carstens To: Avi Kivity Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/15] KVM userspace interface updates Message-ID: <20070316083650.GA8525@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> References: <11736212072915-git-send-email-avi@qumranet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <11736212072915-git-send-email-avi@qumranet.com> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 03:53:12PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > This patchset updates the kvm userspace interface to what I hope will > be the long-term stable interface. Provisions are included for extending > the interface later. The patches address performance and cleanliness > concerns. Searching the mailing list I figured that as soons as the interface seems to be stable, kvm should/would switch to a system call based interface. I assume the userspace interface might still change a lot, especially if kvm is ported to new architectures. But the general question is: do you still plan to switch to a syscall interface?